Spotify Player only works when Spotify client is open and not on its own with streaming?

[wallysaurus]

I'm just trying to use the terminal on its own without needing to have the spotify client open in the background. I'm not sure how I did this before, I had to reset my arch linux today.

I've followed the documentation very precisely. All I get is this: "No playback found."

[wallysaurus]

side note, I installed spotify_player with cargo install spotify_player --no-default-features --features pulseaudio-backend,lyric-finder,streaming,notify,sixel --force

[mrfatboy]

I have the same problem. Also to add to this issue, if i do add a device first with the Spotify client, which it does then shows up in spotify_player, the device disappears after awhile if music is paused.

Is there a way to have spotify_player remember a device? My use case is building a stand alone player that is controllable via home automation. if spotify_player keeps forgetting the playable device I think I hit a dead end with this solution.

[wallysaurus]

I have the same problem. Also to add to this issue, if i do add a device first with the Spotify client, which it does then shows up in spotify_player, the device disappears after awhile if music is paused.

Is there a way to have spotify_player remember a device? My use case is building a stand alone player that is controllable via home automation. if spotify_player keeps forgetting the playable device I think I hit a dead end with this solution.

There is a CLI command to manually connect via name/id. Might wanna check that out.

[aome510]

@wallysaurus. I don't really understand the issue you're facing. Can you elaborate and share any log/backtrace? Note that with streaming feature and a working audio backend, you don't need any other Spotify clients to run the app.

[wallysaurus]

@wallysaurus. I don't really understand the issue you're facing. Can you elaborate and share any log/backtrace? Note that with streaming feature and a working audio backend, you don't need any other Spotify clients to run the app.

As shown in my installation command above, I installed both streaming and pulseaudio-backend, and properly authenticated my spotify account, yet when im inside the spotify_player gui, I am unable to play any songs due to "No playback found."

[wallysaurus]

28T22:06:04.629236Z  INFO spotify_player::streaming: Application's connect configurations: ConnectConfig { name: "spotify-player", device_type: Speaker, initial_volume: Some(45875), has_volume_ctrl: true, autoplay: false }
2024-04-28T22:06:04.648762Z  INFO spotify_player::streaming: Initializing a new integrated player with device_id=9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4
2024-04-28T22:06:04.648977Z  INFO spotify_player::streaming: Starting an integrated Spotify player using librespot's spirc protocol
2024-04-28T22:06:05.674157Z  INFO spotify_player: No playback found on startup, trying to connect to an available device...
2024-04-28T22:06:05.674469Z  INFO spotify_player: Starting a client socket at 127.0.0.1:8080
2024-04-28T22:06:05.675099Z  INFO spotify_player::media_control: Initializing application's media control event watcher...
2024-04-28T22:06:05.793165Z  INFO client_request{request=GetCurrentUser}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 88ms
2024-04-28T22:06:05.927866Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserFollowedArtists}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 222ms
2024-04-28T22:06:06.299895Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserPlaylists}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 594ms
2024-04-28T22:06:06.776508Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserSavedAlbums}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 1071ms
2024-04-28T22:06:06.783458Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Available devices: [Device { id: Some("9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4"), is_active: false, is_private_session: false, is_restricted: false, name: "spotify-player", _type: Speaker, volume_percent: Some(70) }]
2024-04-28T22:06:06.783543Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Trying to connect to device (id=9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4)
2024-04-28T22:06:06.963308Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Connection succeeded (device_id=9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4)!
2024-04-28T22:06:06.963372Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 1258ms
2024-04-28T22:06:08.678072Z  INFO spotify_player::client::handlers: Current context ID (None) is different from the expected ID (Some(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")))), update the context state
2024-04-28T22:06:08.678237Z  INFO client_request{request=GetContext(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")))}: spotify_player::client: Get album context: spotify:album:14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ
2024-04-28T22:06:08.856927Z  INFO client_request{request=GetContext(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")))}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 178ms
2024-04-28T22:06:09.659760Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:09.811670Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:09.993606Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:10.133107Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:10.245568Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:10.349294Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:10.418631Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:10.526570Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:10.584504Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:12.633400Z  INFO client_request{request=GetDevices}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 74ms
2024-04-28T22:06:13.532629Z  INFO client_request{request=Player(TransferPlayback("9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4", false))}: spotify_player::client: Transferred playback to device with id=9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4
2024-04-28T22:06:13.532653Z  INFO client_request{request=Player(TransferPlayback("9b8a19c1-fc76-4018-9200-0097118a32c4", false))}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 167ms
2024-04-28T22:06:14.365435Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:14.492392Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:14.609415Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:14.716811Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:14.805035Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:14.903422Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:14.985284Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:15.075234Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:15.499382Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:2nBwC0sBIO4xiZEsOCRb7N"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:15.641378Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:15.711309Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:2nBwC0sBIO4xiZEsOCRb7N"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:15.848559Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:16.133420Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:2nBwC0sBIO4xiZEsOCRb7N"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:16.248224Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-04-28T22:06:17.681664Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserSavedTracks}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 11976ms
2024-04-28T22:07:46.308599Z  INFO client_request{request=GetDevices}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 75ms```

[wallysaurus]

Also worth noting I have pipewire-pulse-1:1.0.5-1 installed rather than pulseaudio-17.0-3

[aome510]

Interesting, based on the log, this issue seems to happen because handling a StartPlayback requires some playback, which it shouldn't be. One thing that I don't understand is that after TransferPlayback is successfully handled, there should be some playback. That's why I never encountered such problem before.

[aome510]

@wallysaurus should be fixed with #439, e.g StartPlayback should not return an error when the playback is not available. Can you try the latest master?

[wallysaurus]

Doesn't seem like anything's changed on my end. cargo install --git https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player --features lyric-finder,image,notify is what i ran to update it, let me know if i'm installing wrong.

[aome510]

Doesn't seem like anything's changed on my end. cargo install --git https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player --features lyric-finder,image,notify is what i ran to update it, let me know if i'm installing wrong.

Can you share the new log? The install command looks good to me

[wallysaurus]

Doesn't seem like anything's changed on my end. cargo install --git https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player --features lyric-finder,image,notify is what i ran to update it, let me know if i'm installing wrong.

Can you share the new log? The install command looks good to me

2024-05-01T22:07:21.680953Z  INFO spotify_player::token: Getting new authentication token...
2024-05-01T22:07:21.735195Z  INFO spotify_player::token: Got new token: Token { access_token: "token here", expires_in: TimeDelta { secs: 3600, nanos: 0 }, expires_at: Some(2024-05-01T23:07:21.735192214Z), refresh_token: None, scopes: {} }
2024-05-01T22:07:21.735260Z  INFO spotify_player::streaming: Application's connect configurations: ConnectConfig { name: "spotify-player", device_type: Speaker, initial_volume: Some(45875), has_volume_ctrl: true, autoplay: false }
2024-05-01T22:07:21.740709Z  INFO spotify_player::streaming: Initializing a new integrated player with device_id=2df56590-cac7-4009-ad15-908a1f6189ef
2024-05-01T22:07:21.740841Z  INFO spotify_player::streaming: Starting an integrated Spotify player using librespot's spirc protocol
2024-05-01T22:07:22.051367Z  INFO spotify_player: No playback found on startup, trying to connect to an available device...
2024-05-01T22:07:22.051681Z  INFO spotify_player: Starting a client socket at 127.0.0.1:8080
2024-05-01T22:07:22.052289Z  INFO spotify_player::media_control: Initializing application's media control event watcher...
2024-05-01T22:07:22.178693Z  INFO client_request{request=GetCurrentUser}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 114ms
2024-05-01T22:07:22.237264Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserFollowedArtists}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 173ms
2024-05-01T22:07:22.613162Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserPlaylists}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 548ms
2024-05-01T22:07:23.145030Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Available devices: [Device { id: Some("cbf850a307aadaf4be921e0567de45f350857113"), is_active: false, is_private_session: false, is_restricted: false, name: "archlinux", _type: Computer, volume_percent: Some(100) }, Device { id: Some("2df56590-cac7-4009-ad15-908a1f6189ef"), is_active: false, is_private_session: false, is_restricted: false, name: "spotify-player", _type: Speaker, volume_percent: Some(70) }]
2024-05-01T22:07:23.145066Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Trying to connect to device (id=2df56590-cac7-4009-ad15-908a1f6189ef)
2024-05-01T22:07:23.176993Z  INFO client_request{request=GetUserSavedAlbums}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 1112ms
2024-05-01T22:07:23.703997Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Connection succeeded (device_id=2df56590-cac7-4009-ad15-908a1f6189ef)!
2024-05-01T22:07:23.704027Z  INFO client_request{request=ConnectDevice}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 1639ms
2024-05-01T22:07:28.058788Z  INFO spotify_player::client::handlers: Current context ID (None) is different from the expected ID (Some(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")))), update the context state
2024-05-01T22:07:28.058949Z  INFO client_request{request=GetContext(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")))}: spotify_player::client: Get album context: spotify:album:14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ
2024-05-01T22:07:28.210977Z  INFO client_request{request=GetContext(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")))}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 152ms
2024-05-01T22:07:28.897649Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:28.969617Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:29.131053Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:29.187529Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:29.335781Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:29.359642Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:4laOJWnkJHMEvkR8LFohgQ"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:29.513597Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:30.263586Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:30.417642Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:30.535489Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Album(AlbumId("14FGilar8X2PCvelbjX4tZ")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:6EGKCz3dehJc1NAhrvlWYm"))), None))}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found
2024-05-01T22:07:30.613462Z ERROR client_request{request=Player(ResumePause)}: spotify_player::client::handlers: Failed to handle client request: no playback found```

[aome510]

Can you try running cargo install --git again? Maybe the git repo is not up-to-date when you ran the command. Also, can you make sure that the binary in .cargo/bin/ is run, e.g what is output of which spotify_player? Normally, I recommend people to checkout the repo and run cargo run, but cargo install --git should also work.